BOYS LIFE

Kansas City, Missouri band Boys Life were part of the Midwestern chapter of emo's second wave, with an intensely energetic but dissonant sound that sprung out of the post-hardcore scene in 1993. Their sound relied on a stripped-down approach punctuated by out-of-tune, noisy guitars and a quiet-then-loud alternation. Boys Life put out multiple singles and two LPs before disbanding in 1997, and in 2024, their catalog was revisited on the compilation box set Home Is a Highway.